Mississippi And The Murder Of Medgar Evers
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/05/2002
In the tradition of Parting the Waters: A remarkable examination of the transformation of race relations in the South, as seen through the trial of Medgar Evers's murderer . The history is well known: On June 12, 1963, Mississippi's courageous NAACP chief, Medgar Evers, was gunned down by white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith. Tried twice by all-white juries, Beckwith escaped conviction for three decades. But then Mississippi began to confront its tormented past. And in the 1990s, when Beckwith was sent to jail by a crusading young prosecutor, the family of Medgar Evers finally got justice. Hailed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Lillian Smith Award, Of Long Memory reveals how this remarkable reversal took place. Nossiter uses the tools of memory, history, and reportageand the clear vantage point of an outsider, a Northernerto portray an entire state quite literally summoning up its ghosts. A new epilogue discusses other civil rights cases now being reconsidered, and skillfully shows how the South is finding a way to create justice where none had existed before.
- ISBN:
- 9780306811623
- 9780306811623
- Category:
- History
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 30-05-2002
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Hachette Books
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x23mm
- Weight:
- 0.45kg
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